This is a video of a boat built by Hard Drive Marine with its custom MaxGate that uses two robotic feet to pull itself ashore. It can also be used in reverse to return the boat to the water. Pretty cool. Probably also pretty expensive. Still, now you won’t have to wait until all the buried treasure you were hunting is on board the boat before killing the rest of your crew, since you can now haul the chests aboard yourself. *tapping temple* I’m a thinker. “You’re a sociopath.” Dead men tell no tales, I’m just saying.

This is a video of Stanley the emu of Useless Farm performing a high energy interpretive dance like he’s on fire, with Jamiroquai’s ‘Canned Heat’ added afterwards. It’s crazy to think Stanley came up with that dance without any actual music playing. That’s the sign of a true master of interpretive dance — being able to dance TO THE SILENCE. Bravo, Stanley, bravo (I’d get his brain CAT scanned).

@useless_farm

👑Interpretive dance king 👑

♬ Canned Heat – Jamiroquai

Note: TikTok video HERE in case your browser doesn’t want you in a good mood this morning.

Thanks to JustA, who agrees it’s Friday and time to LET LOOSE.

This is a video of very spirited Australian cattle dog Sissysticks animatedly digging a trench in the soft dirt in order to keep a little river of water flowing. That is impressive work. I like how she pounces up and down so excitedly like a fox. That’s cute. But not so cute I’m letting you into the house with those muddy paws, Sissycakes! Now go wash up before supper.

This is a video of an only hours-old baby lamb chatting it up with TikTok user Brittney Schroder. Wait — what happened to Mary? Is she okay? Did she….pass? I guess she must have been pretty old if my mom was singing to me about her when I was a kid.

@britterneys Someone came out ready to party! #Loud #Baby #Bah #HiTikTok #Lamb #Spring #DeserveADrPepperDuet #AEMembersAlways #FYP #ForYou ♬ original sound – Brittney Schroder

@britterneys Reply to @kuz_i_can1 can’t get a word in edgewise! #Lamb #Sassy #LoveHer ♬ original sound – Brittney Schroder

Note: Video HERE in case your browser is being disagreeable.

Thanks to my dad, who just took my car to run to the grocery store. Fingers crossed he comes back with cookies!

This is a video of the Melodicka Bros. covering Blur’s ‘Song 2’ (aka Woo-hoo!), but in 3/4 time. I’ll be honest, I feel like the woo-hoos really didn’t get the woo-hooing they deserve — like they were cut short. And you should never cut a woo-hoo short, you have to let it all out or risk exploding later. *farts violently in line at Starbucks creating ripples in everyone’s lattes like the t-rex in Jurassic Park* Somebody shushed me on the bus earlier.

Using AI learning, scientists at the University of Tokyo’s ISI Laboratory have successfully taught a pair of robotic arms to peel a banana without tearing your penis off with one hand and vaporizing it with the laser blaster in its other. Congratulations?

Handling soft fruit is tricky for robots, but after training with hours of data from a human operator, a machine learning algorithm developed the motor skills needed to peel a banana 57 per cent of the time.

First, a human operating the robot peeled hundreds of bananas, creating 811 minutes of demonstration data to train the robot to do it by itself. The task was divided into nine stages, from grasping the banana to picking it up off the table with one hand, grabbing the tip in the other hand, peeling it, then moving the banana so the rest of the skin can be removed.

Wait — all that effort and the robot takes 45 seconds to successfully peel a banana only 57% of the time? Excuse me if I’m not impressed, but those are like my banana peeling numbers. Do you even know how many times I’ve had to eat the peel?